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Origins and impact of the welfare state, 1883-1983
The article is concerned with the large and continuous growth of “welfare state” expenditures. It analyses the reasons for the emergence of the welfare state and its impact on economic growth. The work is intended as a diagnosis of this growth since 1883,
A. MADDISON
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Abstract This paper presents a Global Sustainable Development Goals Composite Indicator to assess the grade in the achieving of targets associated with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved in the 2030 Agenda. Based on a critical analysis of the SDG Index, we propose a new aggregation methodology that combines compensatory and non ...
Francisco Javier Blancas +1 more
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The common good from an economic perspective: Insights from EU policies during the COVID-19
This paper delves into the diverse conceptualizations of the “common good” within the economic discourse and scrutinizes their implications for European integration during the pressing COVID-19 pandemic.
Szypulewska-Porczyńska Alina +2 more
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The Evolution of Welfare Systems: Social Democratic and Social Autocratic Paths
Students of global and regional political economy have produced a vast literature on divergent paths of capitalist evolution. The evolution of welfare systems, in general, and their different paths, in particular, have also widely been analysed in ...
Imre Lévai
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Becoming Experts: Life Changes, Adaptation, and Learning of Stroke Survivors’ Informal Caregivers
Background: Social and health trends (e.g., the aging population and growth of chronic diseases) place stroke and informal care as global concerns. After a stroke, most survivors return home relying primarily on informal caregivers, who ensure essential daily support.
Ana Moura +4 more
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Economic transparency and poverty
Nowadays, with the diffusion of inflation targeting, the main instrument that central banks use to achieve final objectives in the implementation of monetary policy (concerning inflation and unemployment) is the interest rate.
Helder Ferreira De Mendonça +1 more
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Background Infective endocarditis (IE) is an increasingly more common disease with poor prognosis. Recently, a few single‐center studies about IE patient characteristics and surgical outcomes have been published from the capital area in Southern Finland.
Karri Parkkila +5 more
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El artículo centra su atención en el enfoque de las capacidades y desarrollo humano. Postura teórica y metodológica para analizar la vida de personas que participan del programa de superación de la pobreza extrema de la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia.
Guberney Muñetón-Santa +1 more
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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model, which integrates value‐added and school‐choice models, to evaluate grade‐by‐grade and cumulative impacts of the Mexican Prospera conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on educational achievement.
Jere R. Behrman +3 more
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The crystal structure of trisodium potassium dodecamolybdenum tetradecasulfide, Na2.9 (2)KMo12S14, consists of Mo12S14S6 cluster units interconnected through interunit Mo—S bonds and delimiting channels in which the Na+ cations are disordered.
Patrick Gougeon +2 more
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